Synodic month length 29.82 days

Length of current 124 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 40 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2010. It is 1 hour and 30 minutes longer than next lunation 125 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 56 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 7 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 5 February 2010 Friday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠164.3°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠164.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠188.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon after perigee

6 days after point of perigee on 30 January 2010 at 09:03 in ♌ Leo. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 13 February 2010 at 02:06 in ♒ Aquarius.

Distance to Moon 381 693 km

Moon before ascending node

7 days after its descending node on 29 January 2010 at 00:02 in ♋ Cancer, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 11 February 2010 at 04:58 in ♑ Capricorn.

Draconic month

Moon before southern standstill

9 days after previous North standstill on 26 January 2010 at 21:04 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠25.783°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-25.749° in the next southern standstill on 8 February 2010 at 14:27 in ♐ Sagittarius.